One Child Every Child Contacts

Facilitators

• Dr. Padma Kaul
• Dr. Amy Metcalfe

Staff

Tian Renton
Project Manager
tian.renton@ucalgary.ca

Grand Challenge

Address key challenges impacting the health and wellbeing of pregnant people and infants

Goals

• Identify and address determinants of fetal growth and optimal development for life-long health
• Deliver evidence-informed biomarkers, tools and transformational care models to enable early recognition and prevention of adverse outcomes

Strategies

• Provide tangible support to facilitate the ongoing operations of Alberta-based longitudinal pregnancy cohorts
• Develop and validate artificial intelligence (AI) based models for fetal imaging
• Establish an international consortium to map the early beginnings ecosystem
• Invest in discovery science as it relates to understanding key mechanisms related to fetal growth, development, and parturition

Facilitators

• Dr. François Bernier
• Dr. Benedikt Hallgrímsson

Staff

Jacinda Larson
Project Manager
jrlarson@ucalgary.ca

Dori-Ann Martin
Clinical Trials Specialist
dori-ann.martin@albertahealthservices.ca

Alex Beaudet
Deep Phenotyping Program, Genetics Research Coordinator
alexander.beaudet@ucalgary.ca

Grand Challenge

Address key challenges impacting children with chronic or complex medical conditions

Goals

• Reduce the burden of medical complexity through precision health-informed biomedical and social approaches to genetic and chronic disease
• Deliver risk reduction strategies to address co-morbidities to achieve optimal trajectories

Strategies

• Leverage existing chronic disease cohorts – and enhance with prospective recruitment
• Evaluate the role of compounding determinants for children with chronic illness
• Assess prevalence and challenges for Indigenous children
• Design interventions focused on addressing health, social and systemic challenges

Facilitators

• Dr. Michael Hart

Staff

Latasha Calf Robe
Project Manager – Indigenous Engagement
latasha.calfrobe@ucalgary.ca

Shannon Faubert
Indigenous Administrative Coordinator
shannon.faubert1@ucalgary.ca

Grand Challenge

Ensure that work on Indigenous child health relies on relationships with community, intergenerational engagement, Indigenous knowledge and practices, and works towards decolonization to produce transformative impact for Indigenous communities

Plan

• Ensure meaningful and appropriate representation of Indigenous peoples, communities, and perspectives in research studies
• Ensure research recognizes Indigenous self-determination
  • Work directly with Indigenous communities, organizations, and people to identify issues, research goals, methods, and actions
• Initiate and support projects critical to Indigenous child and youth health that do not fit within the three themes
  • Projects are based in the holistic and relational foundations of Indigenous ways of knowing and address structural and upstream factors

Facilitators

• Dr. Michael Hart

Staff

Latasha Calf Robe
Project Manager – Indigenous Engagement
latasha.calfrobe@ucalgary.ca

Shannon Faubert
Indigenous Administrative Coordinator
shannon.faubert1@ucalgary.ca

Mandate

Ensure that work on Indigenous child health relies on relationships with community, intergenerational engagement, Indigenous knowledge and practices, and works towards decolonization to produce transformative impact for Indigenous communities

Plan

• Ensure meaningful and appropriate representation of Indigenous peoples, communities, and perspectives in research studies
• Ensure research recognizes Indigenous self-determination
  • Work directly with Indigenous communities, organizations, and people to identify issues, research goals, methods, and actions
• Initiate and support projects critical to Indigenous child and youth health that do not fit within the three themes
  • Projects are based in the holistic and relational foundations of Indigenous ways of knowing and address structural and upstream factors

Facilitators

• Dr. Bukola Salami

Staff

Hayford Avedzi
Operations Team Lead and Research Scientist
hayford.avedzi1@ucalgary.ca 

Olajumoke Oyebode
Research Associate
olajumoke.oyebode@ucalgary.ca

Sameer Nizamuddin
Project Coordinator
403.220.6898
HMRB 213
sameer.nizamuddin@ucalgary.ca

Mandate

Take a committed approach to dismantle and disrupt inequities through equitable research practices and inclusive governance

Plan

• Accountable for the development of the EDI Action Plan (year 1 deliverable)
• Provide guidance in addressing barriers to participation and career advancement in underrepresented groups
• Support CFREF activities around:
  • Integrating EDI in health research
  • Incorporating EDI in Child Health and Wellness
  • Mitigating barriers, mitigating equity tax, and engaging stakeholders
• EDI Action Plan and lessons learned from development, implementation, and real-life performance will be shared with our wider community

Facilitators

• Dr. Jay Riva-Cambrin
• Dr. Elizabeth Oddone Paolucci

Staff

Kenneth Okoye
Program Manager
HMRB 286
kenneth.okoye@ucalgary.ca

Julia Klenin
Project Manager
HMRB 206
jklenin@ucalgary.ca

Vanessa Bélanger-Marceau

Awards Advisor
HMRB 206
vanessa.belangermarc@ucalgary.ca

Mandate

Foster a new generation of researchers with transdisciplinary understanding of child health and wellness

Plan

• Recruit, train and retain research trainees and early career researchers (ECRs) with partnering universities
• Provide training across universities and partners of One Child Every Child
• Create certification pathways to guide learners towards tailored curricular content for issues unique to child health and wellness
• Build and sustain inclusive, interdisciplinary communities of trainees, ECRs and mentors to provide advanced training and personalized mentorship
• Increase the number of Indigenous trainees at all levels
• Increase the representation of equity-deserving groups among trainees
• Foster networking from mentorship, collaborations, and partnerships

Facilitators

• Dr. François Bernier
• Dr. Benedikt Hallgrímsson

Staff

Matthew Adams
Program Manager, Data Science
matthew.adams@ucalgary.ca

Mandate

Integrate and harness multipronged data sources using cutting-edge data science, develop equitable and inclusive data standards and support the build of a comprehensive data infrastructure

Plan

• Use digital health data to drive discovery and innovation
• Leverage digital health resource for insights and health and economic innovations
• Develop advanced computer-aided diagnosis and treatment guidance tools for disease diagnosis and outcome prediction in sick children – enabling a data-driven precision health approach
• Grow our existing digital data footprint into a significant national and international data health research data integration and analysis resource

Facilitators

• Dr. Michael Kallos
• Dr. Adam Kirton

Staff

Raman Koul
Technology Solutions Project Coordinator
raman.koul@ucalgary.ca  

Mandate

Develop accessible, distributed, wearable and culturally acceptable precision health interventions

Plan

• Co-develop novel health and related technologies with potential for substantial health, social, and economic value
• Ensure inventions are commercialized and diffused for maximum benefit
• Act as a catalyst for new hardware, software and integrated solutions, coordinate activities with the data accelerator and engage with thematic researchers to plan solutions and drive innovations

Facilitator

• Dr. Deborah Marshall

Staff

Btissam (Sam) El Hassar
Project Manager
HMRB 279
btissam.elhassar@ucalgary.ca

Fiona Mackenzie
Impact and Knowledge Mobilization Facilitator 
HMRB 279
fiona.mackenzie@ucalgary.ca

Mandate

Co-develop a national framework for child health with UNICEF and advance and deploy effective knowledge mobilization strategies to maximize impact

Plan

• Create an Impact, Value and Knowledge Mobilization Framework specific to child health and wellness
• Embed and Align Impact and KM into all CFREF Funded Projects and Activities
• Assess Economic Impact of One Child, Every Child Research initiatives
• Provide oversight to PMP Measurement and Reporting